I'm a 40yo with 20 years in print and digital graphic design. Over the last 8 years, I have self-taught myself HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL/SQL Server, and enough javascript, jQuery and Ajax to be dangerous. I have several front-facing sites for possible clients/employers to review, but most of my work are internal sites and HTML-based reports.

Currently, my FTJ is based more around BI/data-analysis, operations, marketing and graphic design. I really want to make the move to developing on a full-time basis.

Links, to a few public-facing sites that I have developed, are at the end of this comment.

I'm not sure about full-stack, or if I even have enough knowledge to pursue that route. I enjoy solving problems. If I'm unsure of how to accomplish something, I will research and learn until I can figure a way to achieve the end result. I have no problem designing/developing from beginning to end.

I have not applied anywhere. Not even sure if I'm qualified to do so.. kind of the reason I'm posting.

I desire to telecommute, and must be able earn > $75k annually to transition to this, but don't know if my knowledge level is commensurate.

A problem that I'd foresee here (and take this with a grain of salt, my guidance counselor days were several years ago) is that if you have only four projects to show me here. To demonstrate true passion about coding, it's best to have a whole ream of projects, even if they aren't for clients. Employers won't care if your stopwatch app is no different than the 10,000 other stopwatch apps out there, what matters is that you made it and it demonstrates your skill & passion. If you've already been working with clients for development work and you have some examples to show, that's a great start - do more of that, get more and more projects that you've done professionally for clients. That, to a large extent, makes you a professional developer in and of itself, and you should think & market yourself as such. For the places where you can't share work, make sure you have good references to share.

There's good posts on this topic if you search around the forums, but here are a few examples:

Hey Codecademy, I'm a graphic/visual designer and I've been learning some HTML and CSS on your site. I've had fun so far! I'm considering whether going into a web design or front-end development track is right for me, and if I need "full stack" skills. Everyone is talking about full stack like it's the thing to do with coding. I'm more interested in the design aspects :art:, though, in building websites and not necessarily making apps or whatever. :iphone:
I don't have any math or compute…

Hey Codecademy, I'm fairly new to coding but I like what I've experienced so far and think that it could be a great career switch for me to make. How should I get there: what courses should I learn, what certifications do I need?

Hi I'm Brian, I lead hiring at Codecademy so I can answer this from my perspective in what I look for in new hires! When you ask what kind of skills, do you mean on the technical side or on the "soft skills" side? I'll answer the second one, partially because I think that's something that should be discussed a lot more, but if you were thinking more about the first let me know. Problem solving ability, communication ability are both paramount. I look for a hunger to learn, and a willingnes…

It won't stop you from getting a job if you aren't building projects for yourself on the side or if you don't have more work to show to a prospective employer, but it will slow you down. As Oscar says (and I agree), if those projects you link to are all your own work… they're great quality. They don't necessarily demonstrate much back-end experience, so if you want to pursue that, you should keep building.

Throw everything up on your GitHub as you go, that's very important. Consider making your own personal portfolio page like this, this, or this where you can populate it with your coding projects and information (particularly professional information) about yourself. If you want to focus on front-end, make it one of if not the best example of your front-end design work to be found anywhere. In any case, take pride in it.